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From The Room: Asians Better at Math, Especially When It Comes to Faking Gymnasts' Ages
August 22, 2008 - Well, it's official. An IOC investigation of the Chinese women's gymnastics team members' ages is underway. Five out of the six team members--He Kexin, Yang Yilin, Jiang Yuyuan, Deng Linlin a...
From The Room: Featured Nine-Year-Old Olympic "Dancer" Turns Out to Be Creation of Pedophiliac Animator
August 22, 2008 - BEIJING -- Supporting allegations that portions of the opening ceremonies of the XXIX Olympiad were pre-produced and "enhanced" by computer-generated sleight-of-hand, a fifteen minute excerpt from this Sunday's closing ceremonies appeared over YouTube, before Chinese authorities dem...
Dickipedia: The Olympics
August 21, 2008 - The Olympic Games (born 776 BC) is an international multi-sport event, a contest to see which country's chemists can concoct the least-detectable performance-enhancing drugs, brought to you by Visa--it's everywhere you want to be--and a dick...
From The Room: Devout U.S. Archery Coach Attributes Team's Poor Showing to Christ's "Understandable" Bias Toward Water Sports
August 20, 2008 - BEIJING, China (Sportsman's Daily Wire Service) --Kisik Lee, the head coach of the United States archery team, is a devout Christian who believes a strong faith makes for better archers because it helps q...
From The Room: The Many Faces of Being a Woman in 2008
August 18, 2008 - Channel surfing last night at midnight drove home what being a woman means in 2008: At the same moment as a re-run of the Obama/McCain interview with McCain citing eBay founder Meg Whitman as one of three people whose opinion he'd seek out should he become president...
From The Room: Human Rights Violations Medal Count 2008
August 18, 2008 - The United States and China are locked in a heated race for global human rights violations supremacy. While it was predicted that China would win the overall violations count, the U.S. is putting it's weakening money where China's one billionth mouth is. Did...
From The Room: The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: The Olympics, the Agony of the Seat
August 15, 2008 - I am trying very hard to put my backside in front of the television to root home our Olympic team, but in direct contrast to the old saw, my flesh is willing but my spirit is weak. I just can't get into the games, and after giving it some...
From The Room: The Flip-Flop: In Praise Of The Biggest Political Sin
August 14, 2008 - Candidates have been calling their opponents names throughout history. Here in America, they've been called, "a hell raiser," "a tax raiser," ""an abolitionist," "a pro-slaver," "a hawk," "a dove," "a communist," "a fascist," "an intellectual," or "an idiot." But lately, there is one charge that is...
From The Room: Roger Ailes Tours Xinhua News Agency: "There's a Lot to Like"
August 14, 2008 - BEIJING, China (The Sportsman's Daily Wire Service) Journalists with the Xinhua News Agency are hand-picked and indoctrinated to produce media reports that give the official point of view of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). While even F...Filed under: Beijing Olympics, Olympic organizers, Olympic protests, Chinese dissidents, China political prisoners, Roger Ailes, China human rights violations, bikers masks, Olympics masks, cyclists masks, athletes masks, masks cyclists, Beijing masks apology, masks apology, cyclists apology, Beijing Olympics human rights, Free Tibet, Beijing Olympics Tibet, China human rights, Beijing pollution, Beijing air quality, China human rights violations
Inappropriate Hottie Rundown: Olympic Athletes (as written by the Chinese government)
August 13, 2008 - Say what you want about their factories, but the Chinese have high standards for attractiveness. Lin Miaoke, the nine year old who sang at the opening ceremonies of the Olympics was in fact lip-synching. The owner of the real voice, Yang Peiyi, age 7, was deemed by Politburo officials...Filed under: Misty-May Treanor, Misty May Treanor, Tom Daley, Spanish Men's Basketball Team, Spanish Basketball team racism, Spanish Basket Ball Team racist, Yao MIng, Yao Ming Olympics, Yao Ming Beijing, Yao Ming, Beijing Olympics, Chinese gymnastic team, Chinese women's gymnastic team, Chinese gymnastics, Chinese gymnasts, Chinese women gymnasts, hot Olympic athletes, hot Olympic athletes, hottest Olympic athletes, hot Olympic swimmers, hot Olympic gymnasts, hot Olympians, sexy Olympians, sexy Olympic athletes
From The Room: The Definition of "Saving Face"
August 13, 2008 - We've all read reports about China putting its best foot forward for the Olympics, whether by cleaning up the pollution blanketing Beijing or sweeping Tibet and Darfur protesters right out of the country. With all eyes on China for the coming weeks, its government naturally wants to project an...Filed under: Lin Miaoke, Yang Peiyi, Olympic lip sync, Beijing lip sync, Beijing lip sync opening ceremony, Beijing girl singer, Chinese girl Olympic singer, Chinese girls opening ceremony, girl mimed Olypics, girl mimed at the Olypics, opening ceremony singer, Yang Peiyi Lin Miaoke, Beijing Olympics
23/6 Video: The Olympic Opening Ceremonies in a minute
August 12, 2008 - NBC's coverage of the Olympic Opening Ceremony clocked in at over four hours. While Zhang Yimou's display was certainly memorable—regardless of the CGI fireworks—even the Chinese couldn't figure out a way to computer generate a procession of obscure African/Eastern European countries that...
Catch Olympic Fever! (symptoms include extreme ignorance of outside world)
August 12, 2008 - Russia at war? Edwards love child? McCain Viagra baby-eating scandal? Who cares?! The Olympics are on!! A lot of major international news apparently isn't important when Michael Phelps is about to take to the pool. MSNBC has done away with news completely while the Olympics are on. The...
A Reader's Guide to David Brooks, the left's favorite conservative
August 12, 2008 - What's the deal with China? It seems so complicated. Fear not, because David Brooks has finally tackled it, and there's nothing Brooks can't decomplicate. A few minutes in the Barnes & Noble "Sociology" section, a few Wikipedia searches, and presto: China explained. It may kinda sound like BS...Filed under: David Brooks, David Brooks China, David Brooks Olympics, David Brooks Beijing, David Brooks Beijing Olympics, Beijing Olympics, Olympics 2008, Harmony and Dream, David Brooks column, David Brooks Harmony and Dream, David Brooks New York Times, Brooks New York Times, reader's guide David Brooks, David Brooks reader's guide, David Brooks fish tank, David Brooks Asians, David Brooks racist, David Brooks racism, David Brooks collectivist mentality, David Brooks Opening Ceremony, David Brooks contexts, David Brooks Chinese mindset
From The Room: Team USA Cleans Up or Team Bush
August 12, 2008 - The millions watching as the American male swimmers realized they'd won the Olympics gold in the relay race will never forget their reactions. Seconds before the first swimmer hit the water, the TV announcer had been saying that he'd done the math every which way and it always...
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